Mikaeel Kular: Killer mother's troubled mind revealed as she admits beating son to death and hiding his body in a case

ROSDEEP Adekoya lived a party lifestyle and larged it like an A-list socialite while living with her five kids in one of Edinburgh's poorest areas. Yesterday she admitted battering her three-year-old son and leaving him to die in agony.

Another favourite haunt of Adekoya’s was Shanghai, a club below the four-star Le Monde hotel which is popular with city footballers.

One man said he would see Adekoya out several times a week. He added: “She was very cosy with groups that are known to a lot of bouncers. It wasn’t your groups that come and just enjoy a drink if you know what I mean.

“I’ve seen her with a lot of different guys, always following someone around.”

Mum Rosdeep Adekoya

On social media, Adekoya played up her party-girl image. One picture shows her dressed as Minnie Mouse, while another shows her in a Santa outfit with her arms round a man’s neck as she kisses his face.

Neighbours wondered where she got the money to fund her lifestyle as there was little sign that her mobile beautician’s business made much money.

But a picture posted on her Facebook page could provide a clue. It shows her with drug dealer Mo Abdi, who was murdered with a submachine gun in a gang-related shooting in the capital last year.

In the picture, he has his arm wrapped around Adekoya as she leans in and smiles.

An Edinburgh bouncer who has worked at a number of clubs said: “She was well known to a lot of door staff. She was always with that Mo Abdi and his friends, so that says a lot if you ask me.”

Adekoya’s neighbours said they had seen Abdi at her home and with her children several times.

One local resident said: “The word in the area is that she was taking cocaine.”

Former classmates of Adekoya’s said she was quiet at school and much involved in her studies. After leaving school, she married Nigerian Omotoso Adekoya and had three children – Tarin, nine, David, seven, and six-year-old Renuka.

She later returned to education and took beauty courses at Fife College.

After her marriage broke down, Adekoya had relationships with a number of men – leading to speculation over who was the father of Mikaeel and his twin sister Ashika.

Weeks before Mikaeel died, Adekoya cut him out of family pictures she posted on social media.

One of the heartbreaking original images shows the three-year-old staring lovingly at his mother. But in the picture she shared on her Instagram page, Mikaeel’s face has been cropped out.

Adekoya also posted cheesy motivational messages on Instagram as she slowly beat her son to death. They were uploaded on two of the days when she is known to have attacked him.

One said: “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

The second reads “As long as you are breathing you still have the chance for a better and happier life.”

The web page was bombarded with abuse after Adekoya was charged in connection with Mikaeel’s death.

One user said: “Yeah and you want to kill your kids. May you rot.” Another wrote: “Oh the irony. #childkiller.”